After more than a decade of violent crime decreases with just a few interludes, crime has shot back up to levels not seen since the early 1990s. When the left acknowledges this fact, it often does so by tying the violent crime increase to the sale of guns. However, there's no evidence that the additional crimes are being committed by law-abiding gun owners
Some legacy media journalists are intent on just downplaying the crime issue entirely
- Recent example: an article by Philip Bump in The Washington Post on “Crime is surging (in Fox News coverage)”
- Bump used a Fox segment featuring political analyst Gianno Caldwell questioning Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., about the crime crisis as a jumping off point for his article
- Caldwell's brother was fatally shot in Chicago in June
Bump's argument is essentially that Fox News highlights crime to serve as a political utility to gain power
- Does the left not cite "institutional racism" and incidents involving police to get its way politically?
- A few years ago, we got just that in the form of the "defund the police" movement that the mainstream left now tries to deny ever existed because it backfired spectacularly.
The FBI's 2021 crime data shows a slight decrease in overall violent crime compared to 2020, but it also recorded 4.3% more homicides compared to 2019.
- The data from 2021 is incomplete as many states still haven't made the switch to a new system used by the FBI, and many agencies still don't have the necessary data.
Violent Crime
- Compared with early 2020, violent crime is unquestionably up, and significantly so.
- Violent crime hasn't yet surpassed the levels seen in the early-to-mid-1990s, but is that really the standard we should measure it by?
- Violence is now a serious issue communities large and small are coming to grips with. It comes in the wake of the 2020 riots and the specific policies pursued by cities at about that time
Reality is not a narrative, it's reality.
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